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Apogon's conning tower	Brummer operating off Norway, circa 1940s; note the three mine launching doors on the stern and aft gun turrets

Chikuma during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS Enterprise; note smoke coming from bridge area which sustained bomb damage	Drawings of German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran

Krupp factory in ruins, Essen, Germany, circa late Apr 1945; photograph taken from an observation aircraft of US 79th Division	Map of Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands

Map of Luzon, Philippines from Lingayen Gulf to Manila Bay	Map of Makin Atoll (now Butaritari Atoll)

Map of Okinawa, Japan	Map of the China-Burma-India Theater highlighting the Burma and Ledo Roads to Chungking

Map of the Philippine Islands	Map of the Philippine Sea from Japan to the Carolines

Map of the Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands	Map of Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands

Mildred Axton in front of a AT-6 aircraft at the Confederate Air Force American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Midland, Texas, United States, 10 Oct 1993	US General George Stratemeyer visiting He Ruomei in a hospital, China, 17 Aug 1945; He had been arrested and tortured by the Japanese in Apr 1945 for assisting downed US airmen

View of Tainan, Taiwan, 1934	WAAF fabric workers and workshop hands at a RAF Coastal Command Maintenance Unit cleaning and painting a Whitley Mark V bomber of No. 51 Squadron RAF, RAF Gosport, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

WAAF trainee balloon operators learning their first lesson in tethering a kite balloon with a model at No. 1 Balloon Training Unit, RAF Cardington, Shortstown, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	Fuzhou Arsenal under construction, Fujian Province, China, 1867-1871